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List of Turkish Germans

The following is a list of notable Turkish Germans. This includes people of full or partial ethnic Turkish origin born in Germany, as well as ethnic Turkish immigrants who have arrived in Germany either from the Seljuk and Ottoman territories or from post-Ottoman modern nation-states (especially from the Republic of Turkey, but also from the Balkans, Cyprus, as well as other parts of the Levant and North Africa).

Most notable Turkish Germans originate from the Republic of Turkey; however, there are also notable Germans of ethnic Turkish origin who came from Seljuk Anatolia (e.g. ) and the Ottoman Empire (e.g. , Fatima Kariman and ). In addition, there are notable ethnic Turks who come from other post-Ottoman modern nation-states, especially from the Balkans (e.g. Ozan Güven, Filiz Osmanodja, Erol Sabanov, and Kemal Kurt are of Turkish Bulgarian origin; Hüdai Ülker is of Turkish Macedonian origin; Ateed and Cemile Giousouf are of Turkish Western Thracian origin), the island of Cyprus (e.g. Turgay Hilmi, Atesh Salih, and Rüya Taner are of Turkish Cypriot origin), the Levant (e.g. is of Turkish Iraqi origin; Burak Karan is of Turkish Syrian origin; and Bilal Aziz Özer is of Turkish Lebanese origin), etc.

This list is arranged alphabetically by surname following the Turkish alphabet arrangement. Notable ethnic Turks who originate from outside the modern borders of Turkey (i.e. from the Balkans, Cyprus, the Levant, etc.) are listed with their origin. Furthermore, individuals who are of partial Turkish origin are listed with their dual identity.

Academia and medicine

Arts and literature

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  • , audio book speaker
  • , writer
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  • , theater director
  • Doğan Akhanlı, historical novelist
  • , author
  • , writer, radio and television journalist
  • , journalist and writer
  • , installation and performance artist
  • , journalist and writer
  • Hakan Albayrak, journalist and activist
  • Ozlem Altin, visual artist
  • , author and migration policy expert
  • Ayşe Arman, journalist and columnist (Turkish father and a German mother)
  • , writer
  • , artist and painter
  • , writer and poet
  • , journalist
  • , cabaret artist, satirist and performing artist
  • Fatma Aydemir, author and journalist
  • , author and campaigner; co-founder of '
  • , graffiti artist, breakdancer, and beatboxer
  • , cartoonist and satirist
  • Esmahan Aykol, novelist (Turkish Macedonian/Turkish Bulgarian father and Turkish mother)
  • , cabaret artist, book author, and integration activist
  • , author and social worker
  • , author
  • , journalist and author
  • , writer
  • Fakir Baykurt, author and trade unionist
  • Murad Bayraktar, journalist and editor
  • Habib Bektaş, writer
  • , writer
  • Şakir Bilgin, writer
  • , journalist
  • , cartoonist, playwright and journalist
  • , journalist and radio presenter
  • , author
  • Ä°nci Bürhaniye, co-founder of
  • , journalist
  • , poet
  • , early authors on the "Literature of Migrants" in Germany
  • , children's book author
  • , author
  • , interior designer
  • , journalist, author and pilot
  • Nevfel Cumart, writer, speaker, literary translator and journalist
  • Sabri Çakır, poet
  • , choreographer and interdisciplinary performance artist
  • , journalist
  • , author of children's and youth literature
  • Zehra Çırak, poet
  • , painter and graphic artist
  • , writer and theatre actress
  • , publisher and literary translator; founder of the publishing house
  • Güney Dal, writer
  • , poet
  • , author of children's and youth literature
  • Adil Demirci, journalist
  • , journalist
  • , architect based in Cologne and Frechen
  • , theater director, cabaret artist, and author
  • , author
  • , journalist and author
  • , journalist, translator and author
  • , theater director
  • Cengiz Doğu, poet and activist
  • , author
  • Özlem Özgül Dündar, author and translator
  • , writer and doctor
  • , painter and object artist
  • Işıl Eğrikavuk, artist
  • , poet and translator from Russian into Turkish
  • , literary translator
  • , satirist
  • , writer
  • , journalist
  • , author and social worker
  • Ayşe Erkmen, visual artist
  • Ä°smet Ergün, painter and stage designer
  • Aslı Erdoğan, writer and author
  • , theater director and author
  • , author and journalist
  • Semra Ertan, writer and activist
  • , author; managing board member of the
  • , author and journalist
  • , journalist and poet
  • , children's book author
  • , mime artist, director and theatre teacher
  • , writer
  • , artist
  • , journalist
  • , co-founder and board member of the à la turca theater
  • , author
  • , author
  • Mehmet Güler, painter
  • , journalist and publicist
  • Kübra Gümüşay, journalist, blogger, and activist
  • , painter, sculptor, writer, and comedian
  • , editor and literary translator; co-founder of publishing house
  • , journalist; former head of the Turkish-language editorial team at Deutsche Welle
  • , journalist
  • , journalist, publicist, and non-fiction author
  • Tatjana Gürbaca, opera director (Turkish father and Italian mother)
  • , author and poet
  • , journalist
  • , writer and playwright
  • Osman Kalin, built the in Berlin
  • Celal Kandemiroglu, graphic artist
  • Yadé Kara, writer
  • , writer
  • , theater director
  • Suzan Emine Kaube, writer, painter and pedagogue
  • , writer and publicist
  • , writer
  • Murat Kaya, comics author
  • , comic artist
  • , non-fiction author
  • , puppeteer; master of Karagöz and Hacivat
  • , sculptor and painter
  • Kemal Kurt, author, translator and photographer (Turkish Bulgarian origin)
  • Şeyda Kurt
  • , writer
  • Nuray Lale, writer
  • Şermin Langhoff, director of the Maxim Gorki Theater
  • , author and alternative practitioner in psychotherapy
  • Souad Mekhennet, journalist (Turkish mother and Moroccan father)
  • , dancer and choreographer
  • , journalist (Turkish father and a German mother)
  • , cartoonist
  • , writer
  • , cartoonist and founder of
  • Aras Ören, writer
  • , journalist and author
  • Emine Sevgi Özdamar, dramatist and playwright
  • , writer
  • , poet
  • , writer
  • , poet and literary translator
  • , journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Business Insider
  • , author
  • , crime writer
  • , novelist and non-fiction writer
  • Ertuğrul Özkök, journalist
  • , author and translator
  • , cabaret artist
  • , writer and cabaret artist
  • , cabaret artist
  • Yüksel Pazarkaya, writer and translator
  • Akif Pirinçci, writer
  • , author, journalist, and theater pedagogue
  • , painter
  • , novelist
  • , author
  • , dancer
  • , writer
  • Saliha Scheinhardt, writer
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  • , writer
  • , author
  • , journalist and author
  • , visual artist
  • , journalist, radio presenter and writer
  • , artist and author
  • Murad Sezer, photographer
  • , writer, publicist and journalist (Turkish father and German mother)
  • , journalist
  • Necmi Sönmez, curator, art critic and writer
  • , artist
  • , writer and publicist
  • Asli Sungu, performance artist and painter
  • , journalist, author, and editor
  • , theater director; founder of Arkadaş Theater
  • , editor-in-chief of the magazine "Ayasofya"
  • Nedim Şener, writer and journalist
  • Zafer Şenocak, writer, translator, and poet
  • , author; winner of the in 2013
  • , poet
  • , writer and theater director
  • , journalist and crime writer
  • , author
  • , writer (Turkish mother and German father)
  • , writer, theater director and satirist
  • Arzu Toker, writer, journalist, publicist and translator
  • , dancer and acrobat
  • Canan Topçu, writer
  • , journalist
  • , journalist and radio presenter
  • , photojournalist
  • , journalist
  • Şadi Üçüncü, writer
  • , theater director and cartoonist
  • Hüdai Ülker, writer (Turkish Macedonian origin)
  • , writer
  • , journalist and photographer
  • Selma Wels, co-founder of
  • , non-fiction author
  • , writer
  • , writer (Turkish Cypriot origin)
  • , theatre actor and theatre director
  • , artistic performer and dancer
  • , literary critic
  • , writer
  • , comic artist and comic author
  • Bahar Yilmaz, author
  • , author, interpreter, editor and publisher
  • , journalist and book author
  • , theater director
  • Deniz Yücel, journalist and publisher
  • Feridun Zaimoğlu, author and visual artist
  • , journalist
  • , dancer and choreographer

"Booty Turks" (') and descendants

Business

Cinema and television

Fashion

  • , fashion designer
  • , fashion designer

Food

  • , Michelin star chef (Turkish father and German mother)
  • , restaurateur
  • , Michelin star chef
  • Attila Hildmann, cookbook author and far-right conspiracy theorist
  • , restaurateur and author of cookbooks on Turkish cuisine
  • , runs Germany's most successful YouTube channel on cooking and baking
  • , celebrity chef

Law

Military

Music

Politics

Religion

Royalty

Sports

Victims of crime

"Wall victims" (') at the Berlin Wall

  • Cengaver Katrancı, an 8-year-old boy who drowned in the river Spree in 1972; West Berlin fire department could not intervene after they unsuccessfully attempted to obtain permission for the entry into the river. An East German fireboat and a tanker were present but did not take the rescue operation.
  • , a 5-year-old boy drowned in the river Spree in 1975; West Berlin police and fire brigade were not allowed to intervene because of the state border running along the bank. Çetin received no help from East Berlin either.

Others

See also

References